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Howling Blast: Blast the target with a frigid wind, dealing 648573 + (Attack power * 0.738)))] Frost damage to that foe, and 648573 + (Attack power * 0.738))))] Frost damage to all other enemies within 10 yards, infecting all targets with Frost Fever.

Tier 16 Weapons

In addition to new armor styles coming in Patch 5.4 with the Siege of Orgrimmar, the upcoming raid is filled with new weapon models referencing Garrosh's Horde, the Sha, and the Klaxxi. There's even a sweet weapon, Seismic Bore, that boosts mining!

We've organized the weapons by type and difficulty below--LFR, Normal/Flex, and Heroic weapons have unique colors. Be sure to click on the weapons to view them in our 3D Modelviewer!

The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were updated tonight with class changes and some details about new noodle cooking carts!

The noodle carts will turn players into a vendor who can distribute powerful food to allies.The recipes for noodle carts can be learnt from questing, such as The Secret Ingredient Is.... Players can pick up these quests when they have one of the initial "Ways" recipes already learnt, on the Timeless Isle.Class changes include: (Holy) now has a cooldown of 3 minutes (down from 5 minutes), and summons a guardian that heals the ally that the Paladin healed for 100% (up from 10%) of the amount healed, but no longer heals nearby friendly targets. Rogue Tier-15 4-piece set bonus now causes Shadow Blades to reduce the cost of all abilities by 15% (down from 40%).Healing Rain's healing has been reduced by 30%, and the area-of-effect has been increased to 12 yards (up from 10 yards).Nature's Vigil when activated now increases all damage and healing done by 12% (up from 10%), and causes single-target healing spells to trigger an additional heal on a nearby ally for 25% of the amount healed. [

With Patch 5.4 two weeks away, we're taking a look at all the new trinkets today. The new trinkets from Siege of Orgrimmar are between ilvl 528 (LFR) and ilvl 572 (Heroic Warforged), and there are also ilvl 496 and ilvl 535 BoA trinkets from the Timeless Isle.

Many of these trinkets have interesting procs--some change the cooldown recovery rate on major abilities, while others have cleave or multistrike mechanics. For the spec-specific trinkets, we've tested them on the PTR--several affected abilities have changed over the course of the PTR.

The Stats and Scaling Proc columns below link to spell IDs used by a trinket. On a spell page, these trinket procs will display their base ilvl 463 value--what you would see when zoning into a Challenge Mode or Proving Grounds. The trinket proc values scale up on our various item pages.

New to 5.4, trinkets now display RPPM information on their tooltips. On item and spell pages, we now show whether a proc's RPPM scales with crit, haste, or budget (item level), such as Item - Proc Versatility.

Throne of Thunder trinkets are receiving some significant RPPM and scaling changes as well in Patch 5.4. We received a list of these changes from

Today's 5.4 PTR build is pretty small in comparison to past ones, but features some DPS shaman buffs--check out the Blizzard Patch Notes for the confirmed official changes. There's also been a post by Blizzard talking about some of the recent Shaman changes.

Several legendary capes had their base RPPM procs changed--on the legendary cape pages like Fen-Yu, Fury of Xuen, you can see what the specific RPPM details are for each spec using our radio buttons.Essence of Yu'lon: Your damaging spell casts have a chance to empower you with the Essence of Yu'lon, causing you to hurl jade dragonflame at the target, dealing 1 (+ 200% of SpellPower) damage over 4 sec. This damage also affects up to 4 other enemies near the burning target. (Approximately 2.422.61 procs per minute)Flurry of Xuen: Your damaging attacks have a chance to trigger a Flurry of Xuen, causing you to deal 1 (+ 20% of Attack Power) damage to up to 5 enemies in front of you,

The 5.4 PTR Patch Notes were updated today with a variety of spell tweaks and details on Battlefield Barrens being drastically changed:

The weekly quests for Battlefield Barrens, as well as most special vanity items, are being removed in 5.4. You will not be able to get Latent Kor'kron transmog armor or any Darkspear Rebellion vanity gear after the patch, or complete Hordebreaker/Darkspear Revolutionary and get the resulting title.

Dozens of new achievements are coming in Patch 5.4, from exploration ones on the Timeless Isle to Gamon Will Save Us!. We've broken down all the achievements by category and highlighted the ones with cool mount and title rewards below:

One cool addition we found in this build was that the proc rates for legendary capes have been assigned unique values for each spec. You can check out what values each spec's proc is by visiting a cape's page and clicking on the various radio buttons. In addition, all of the proc rates scale with item level, so if you click on the Upgrade buttons, the proc will increase correctly as well.